Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope everyone is having a great week. I’m still hopping along on one leg in one of the hottest summers we’ve had but otherwise things are good. I’ve got a fun book to spotlight for you today called Life in New York: How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters, and Subway Sharks by Laura Pedersen which I’ve seen described as hilarious so I can’t wait to read it myself. I could definitely use some humor right now. In the meantime let’s learn more about the book and be sure enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy for yourself!
About the Book
Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller Play Money and award-winning Buffalo Gal, serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, New York, friends thought the seventeen-year-old was suffering from blizzard delirium when she left for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences her adopted city in the best and worst of times while becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the stock exchange, performing stand-up comedy, and writing a column in the New York Times. Neighborhoods that feature chai bars, Pilates studios, and Gymboree were once drug dens, ganglands, and shantytowns. A trip to Central Park often ended in Central Booking, identifying a perp in a lineup.
New Yorkers are as diverse as the city they so colorfully inhabit, cautious but generous, brash but welcoming. Both are captured through the comedic eye of Pedersen. Enjoy an uproarious romp down memory lane as the city emerges as the modern metropolis we know today.
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About the Author
Laura Pedersen is an author, humorist, and playwright. She was also the youngest person at age twenty to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, while earning a finance degree at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She wrote for The New York Times and is the author of Play Money, Beginner’s Luck (chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection), Planes Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws, Buffalo Gal and Buffalo Unbound.
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GIVEAWAY – OPEN TO US & CANADIAN RESIDENTS
1 copy up for giveaway
*CLICK HERE* and fill out the form to enter
Draw Date August 27/15
I love New York so this sounds terrific to me. Thanks for the giveaway!
Kathy, good luck in the giveaway!
I saw mention of this book a little while ago and thought it sounded quite appealing, I will definitely have to look for this one. While I have been to New York state, I have never been to New York City–and yet I love reading books about it–fiction or nonfiction.
Wendy, I enjoy reading about New York City as well and I doubt I’ll ever get there but that is what is great about books – you can travel somewhere you may never visit!
I’m going to NYC in November and would love to read this book first. Thanks for the chance to win!
Good luck Vicki!
Darlene, I will add your giveaway to my blog’s sidebar. Thanks for the chance to win this book!